Enough Already: Getting the Social Media Release All Wrong — After spending a week writing "Social Media Killed the Press Release Star," which painstakingly explains in great detail the need to improve the content and overall relevance of PR and press releases as well as putting a microscope …

Time to kill the Press Release? — For years now, the Press Release (I'm giving it the proper name treatment for this article) was (and really still is) the de facto method for a company to distribute news. Press Releases go out on the wire (no caps) and show up in the inbox of reporters …

Big Media's Crush on Social Networking — I WAS wandering around recently in Second Life, the much-ballyhooed online virtual world, and had a nice chat with one of its "residents." But at the end of the talk he (or perhaps she; you never really know in these digital dioramas …

Telcos Target Google in 'Neutrality' Fight — The latest round in the battle over net neutrality has started, and as usual the telcos have their game plan sussed out and in widespread, synchronized action. The message? Google is bad, and wants to control the Internet to keep its cash pile growing.

Geni Overwhelmed With Early Popularity — Rumors of the new startup by former PayPal COO David Sacks to be called Geni started a couple of weeks ago. A few days later, on January 16, Geni launched. It allows people to create quick and beautiful family trees, got a flood of early attention …

Blip.tv Brings Vlogs to Masses — Major media companies and politicians start paying attention, and money, to video bloggers. — Blip.tv CEO Dina Kaplan wants to make video blogging into a paying profession for video makers. — Her company is out negotiating and signing deals …

ON GOING FROM AT&T TO GOOGLE — This clip from the Colbert Report offers the single best summary of the history of telephone company mergers in the U.S. over the last couple of decades (via Google's YouTube of course). — It does an excellent job explaining how Cingular recently became AT&T.

Blu-ray cracked too? — It's still early on to tell whether this is actually true, but HD DVD cracker muslix64 is back, and with the help of another anti-DRM cracker, Janvitos, claims to have also broken the Blu-ray's implementation of AACS. Although their protection does not yet account …

Get it: Nokia Team Suite 1.0 For Nokia E61 / E62 — One of my favourite Nokia applications is Team Suite. Up until now, Team Suite was only available on Nokia E50. I am glad to report that Team Suite has been added to the Nokia Catalogs and is now available for download.